After the agreement was made, the two clergy departed, and Ryan and the others reappeared at the party to bring the atmosphere to a climax, and it was not until the midnight feast was over that they returned to their house in a carriage.

Early the next morning, after making all kinds of preparations, Lane and the others went to the gate of the Supreme Palace to meet the harpist as agreed. Later, he and the ninth-level ranger named Jaime used the power of the Silvermoon City Mage Tower to teleport in the direction of the Moon Forest in the north of the city. This is where the orc chieftain Oberd Arrows lost the fortress of the arrows.

Ryan and they move very fast in the woods, according to the Ranger. They don't act like mages at all, but like some wanderers. I have to say that this veteran saw it very accurately, Ryan and Hermione did use the methods of the Assassins in Assassin's Creed when they were on their way.

After five or six kilometers of advance, the traces of large-scale destruction of the forest are visible. There are large chunks of area, and everything is destroyed. All the shrubs from the trees were cut down, and even the turf was dug up in some places.

"In the Northlands, many orcs raid south in the winter. It's also the most dangerous time of the year. In previous years, we in Silvermoon City would have been prepared, but this year, Obold led a large group of orcs south that we didn't expect. If the orcs were not driven away or eliminated, the caravan alone would have left a large number of small villages without the necessities to survive the winter, which would result in at least half of the population starving to death. Not to mention that the strength of these orcs alone is enough to cause damage to everyone around them, in fact, many rangers and elves have been killed in the past few days. ”

After listening to the ranger's story, Ryan and the others all felt righteous indignation. Soon, under the aerial reconnaissance of the stealthy Rose Crystal, an orc plundering team was discovered. This is also the fault of these orcs, if they hadn't cut down the surrounding trees and emptied the rose crystals, it would have been impossible to get them out of the dense jungle.

Soon, under the cover of the surrounding natural environment, several people avoided the orc's perception and touched a place not far from them. After Ryan gave the signal, Hermione instantly summoned the shadows to fix the dozen orcs to the ground together, and then Ryan summoned a large net of lightning bolts. At the same time, the Rose Crystal also summoned a large number of crystal fragments to initiate and struck down.

Defenseless against such a three-dimensional raid orc, they didn't expect to have an aerial attacker like the Rose Crystal that could barely be forewarned. I didn't expect a legendary mage to be able to do such a sneak attack that didn't match his identity at all. So just one round of attacks on this squad, all the orcs were collectively wiped out by the three of them by Ryan, and the ranger who came with them didn't even shoot an arrow.

The level gap is on full display here, especially since the high-tier casters have an overwhelming advantage over these lower-tier warriors. Over the next two days, Ryan raided more than a dozen strongholds and killed more than thirty raiding squads. The harpist had to admit that a legendary mage and a high-level mage would be a massacre for the orcs if they put down their sheath and ran to attack those low-level orcs.

For example, when attacking the largest stronghold, there were three squads of nearly 200 orcs in the stronghold. After the Rose Crystal scouted and confirmed that there were no hostages in the stronghold, Ryan and the harpists spent half an hour erecting an altar in the woods near the stronghold, and then ascended the altar and spent seven minutes summoning a bolt of lightning that reduced the entire stronghold to ashes along with the orcs inside.

After two days of clearing, almost all the small and medium-sized orc strongholds and outgoing patrols in the jungle were swept away, and all that was left were some large strongholds. After walking around the jungle for more than half an hour and still not finding a small enemy like the previous two days, several of them got together at noon and began to discuss the next move.

"Let's retreat this time, brother. Rose Crystal excitedly suggested that she hoped to end the war with a glorious victory. And with Erastro's justice, if they can make a big contribution, they will be rewarded even more.

"You're right, at least two hours ago, it was discovered that the orcs had stopped sending out raiding squads, and they were concentrated in a few large strongholds, and it was impossible to destroy small groups of enemies like this. Ryan nodded at the rose crystal. "So we're going to have a complicated plan, and if we're lucky, we can even solve the orc problem in one fell swoop-"

After discussing for more than ten minutes, everyone agreed on the same opinion, and then they packed up their things and touched the location of the orc royal court that they had detected before. The journey seemed to be smooth, as they had killed nearly a thousand orc warriors in the previous two days of clean-up, which was equivalent to half of the number of local orc warriors. In the face of this heavy loss, Abbard Arrows had to shrink his forces to avoid being broken by the attackers.

Of course, this is also a helpless way, the orc chief had ordered an elite team of 100 people led by his most valued son, Algen Three Fists, to set out from the front line to search for the attackers, but this team was discovered by the Rose Crystal as soon as they set off, and then the harpist Ranger lured them far away from the stronghold and into the trap set by Lane.

By the time Oberd Arrows found out that something was wrong and led his own guards over, Ryan and the others used a magic trap to wipe out the orc squad, and by the way, they also killed a horse pistol and destroyed the front stronghold that was empty due to the departure of the main force with the power of fire and shadow.

In the end, Obed Arrows only saw the corpses of his son, the elite hundred, and the front stronghold that had been turned into a huge fire. What's worse is that a lot of food supplies that were previously sent around for the convenience of the raid were placed in this outpost. This time, they were all ignited by Ryan with wildfires, which made the food and grass that the orcs did not have enough to eat and grass even more scarce.

Although the previous attack allowed Ryan and them to kill a large number of orcs, it may have been inexplicable to lose half of the warriors that made the orcs feel timid. The harpist's ranger was clamoring for a long time at the door of a stronghold closest to the royal court with dozens of Ryan's makeshift transfiguration forms, but he didn't see any reinforcements from the royal court except for shooting two orcs who accidentally showed their heads.

As night drew on, the ranger Jaime had left the stone men where they were, as planned, and returned to the camp to eat. Sitting on the edge of the campfire, he excitedly said, "There are three of us — ah, no, four of us. ”

After hearing the ranger's change of words, Rose Crystal withdrew her gaze with satisfaction, elegantly raised the special small porcelain cup and took a sip of hot tea. Jaime the Ranger looked at the little puppet that was staring at him angrily and continued, "The four of us can make 1,000 strong orc warriors dare not go out, I think this will be the goal of the bards of Silvermoon City and the entire Northland for a long time." ”

"If we succeed this time, we can. Ryan's face turned serious after he finished speaking. "But the more we are at this time, the more we can't be careless, according to the information I've seen before, Oberd Arrows is a brave and ambitious orc leader, and he can't let us kill his army without doing anything back, especially after his most valued son was killed by us just now. ”

"You have a point. Jaime got serious, too. "Orcs have a greater advantage over us humans at night, and I suspect they will probably take advantage of the darkness to attack us at night.

With that, he looked at the seven or eight tents in the camp and the fire in the middle of the camp that clearly exceeded the needs of four people. "But I think this camp is a bit rudimentary, these orcs are all battle-hardened, and they should be very difficult to fool. ”

"We know!" Hermione nodded, "but our real trap isn't here, this place can only weaken a little enemy." ”

"Well, sometimes you don't understand the idea of money for you spellcasters. Jaime shrugged his shoulders and said that the reason why he thought this place was the last trap was because the supplies that Ryan had placed in the camp were worth at least two or three hundred gold coins, but he didn't expect Ryan to spend so much money just to disturb the orcs a little.